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The highlight of Week 3 of IPL was Ishant Sharma’s spell against Kochi Tuskers. The pitch was helping the bowlers but from an Indian perspective, it was good to see Ishant land the ball at the right places. His scalps included Brad Ho...(more)

In what was an anti-climactic match, Rajasthan Royals crushed Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets. The Mumbai team was strangled in the mid-overs by the bowling of Shane Warne and Johan Botha. Botha once again shone with the bat, taking his team pa...(more)

Rajasthan rested Rahul Dravid and Johan Botha (due to an toe injury), resulting in a weakened batting line-up. The Rajasthan bowlers, led by L Balaji and Iqbal Abdulla, ran through the batting to restrict them to a paltry 81. Gambhir and Ma...(more)

Rajasthan Royals defeated the Deccan Chargers comfortably. Their batting carried too many punches for the good bowling of Deccan. The Chargers have Dale Steyn, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra in their arsenal - handful for any team...(more)

It has become a regular feature to watch some of the teams start with spin during this World Cup. If one notices closely, these are countries who do not have enough firepower with the new ball. Countries like New Zealand whose best bowler i...(more)

South Africa’s captain Graeme Smith, won the toss and elected to field. Feroz Kotla stadium is know to help spinners. South Africa went in with three spinners for today’s encounter. The Proteas started off well, with Johan Botha...(more)

South Africa like in the previous two World Cups, come with a good balanced side and the reputation of being chokers. They will like to finally add the ICC WC Trophy to their cabinet since this team might be the best they have ever had.
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Here are the potential champions, for me at least. A very strong (and consistent) batting line-up packed with batsmen who can play long innings as well as attack when the situation demands it, the best new-ball pair in the world, and suprem...(more)

Harsha Bhogle observed (nothing unusual) the pinch-hitter theory adopted by Mitchell Johnson in the recent ODI between the Ashes rivals - as mentioned, it was being used by many teams years ago but of late, the occurrence has redu...(more)


The ICC Cricket World Cup starts on Saturday 19th February 2011 and will run until 2nd of April. South Africa announced the Protea’s World Cup Squad that will try win the World Cup trophy for the first time.: Protea’s Cricket Wo...(more)

Johan Botha sums up how I feel about having Test cricket to watch. Three days of entertainment and there is still more to come. Beats the hell out of all that hit and giggle stuff as far as I am concerned....(more)
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... not picking Rusty. Bowling Albie at the death I mean wtf Pakistan v South Africa ODI 2[scorecard]Well-deserved defeat. Feel sorry for Colin Ingram, he’s one bloody cool kiddie batter, would so have deserved to take the MOTM for hi...(more)

What is a huggability ranking?The idea to categorise people as either huggable or unhuggable was shamelessly nicked from half-tracker. It is a very helpful way to turn diffuse gut feelings into a precisely measurable matter and thereby reac...(more)

Really. That match needs to be repeated :/South Africa v Zimbabwe ODI 3[scorecard]The Saffa innings was about the longest 50 overs I have ever had to go through. Haven’t counted the centuries this time, must have been approx. 28, even...(more)


The IPL Governing Council met recently and announced that only 4 players from the existing squad can be retained for IPL4. Who will these players be? The senior players like Ganguly, Dravid, Kumble might not make it back. Shane Warne, witho...(more)

Has Paul Harris become superfluous to South Africa’s needs over the course of one Test? The evidence seems to suggest so.He has been comprehensively out-bowled by Johan Botha in the Test series against the West Indies - Botha has only...(more)

Group C should be interesting. Indians and South Africans have played a lot of cricket recently, starting from the Test and ODI series before the IPL. They haven’t had a lot of time to rest, and the rapidly growing up Afghanistan will...(more)

I feel safe calling it a foregone conclusion that South Africa will hand the West Indies their sorry asses in the upcoming three-match Test series.The last time the Windies beat South Africa in a Test series was also the first time, when th...(more)
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